Time series analysis of the digital elevation model of Kuwait derived from synthetic aperture Radar interferometry

Abstract

The digital elevation model derived from SAR Interferometry is prone to atmospheric, penetration into soil medium, system noise and decorrelation errors. Eight ASAR images are selected for this study which have unique data set forming 7 InSAR pairs with single master image. It is expected that all the DEMs should have the same elevation values spatially with in the noise limits. However, they differ very much with one another beyond the noise levels indicating the effects of atmosphere and other disturbances. The 7 DEMs are compared with the DEM of SRTM for the estimation of errors. The spatial and temporal distribution of errors in DEM are analyzed by considering several case studies. © 2010 Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.